Jossgrund and Flörsbachtal: Together for safe roads!

Jossgrund and Flörsbachtal: Together for safe roads!

A strong alliance has been formed in the picturesque Flörsbachtal and the neighboring community of Jossgrund to improve traffic safety. According to Mayor Victor Röder, the focus is clearly on protecting citizens. As part of joint measures, we are working on ways to calm road traffic and make endangered areas safer. This includes the installation of speed information boards as well as additional signs that indicate “Caution: speed camera”. As gnz.de reported, these signs will be positioned in all districts and at the entrances.

The situation in Flörsbachtal-Lohrhaupten is particularly challenging. There has been unauthorized through traffic here since the bridge over the Lohrbach was closed. Many drivers ignore the signposted diversion and instead use side streets, which puts a massive burden on residents. “We have to act urgently,” continued Röder, who asked those responsible to support the population in the matter.

Measures for more traffic safety

The aim of the measures taken is to increase road safety in sensitive areas such as schools, kindergartens and retirement homes. Careful planning is essential to find solutions that are both effective and acceptable to all road users. This is also supported by the technical speed control devices provided by the company /B/A/ Technology Service GmbH from Freigericht.

Citizens in the region are called upon to actively participate. You can submit your concerns and ideas about road safety via the Jossgrund municipality website jossgrund.de. Mayor Sibylle Hergert and Röder would like to thank everyone involved and hope for a noticeable improvement in the coming months.

Traffic calming measures in detail

But what are actually hidden behind the terms that are often used in transport planning? A variety of measures are used to calm traffic. These include, for example, one-way streets, purely residential streets, bollards and thresholds that are intended to reduce speed. According to the information from [stvog.de](https://www.stvo2go.de/massnahme-verkehrsbe calmung/), such measures can often be initiated by the local road traffic authority if there is a qualified danger situation.

Paving is an example of how traffic calming can be designed creatively. These hills raise the road surface, reducing speeds to 25 to 35 km/h and making the road safer for pedestrians and cyclists. However, such measures are not final solutions; they always require careful ordering and control by the responsible authorities.

It will be exciting to see how the situation will develop in the coming months. One thing is clear: the communities of Jossgrund and Flörsbachtal take the issue of road safety seriously and do everything they can to make the roads safer for their citizens.